506 



TSITTACIDJE. 



3. Bolbopsittacus mindanensis. 



Cyclopsitta limulata (part.), Tweedd. Tr. Zool. Son. ix. pp. 134,249 

 (Mindanao only) (1875); id. Orn. Works, pp. 301, 410 (Mindanao 

 only) (1881). 



Cyclopsitta lunulata, Tweedd. (nee Scop.) P. Z. S. 1877, p. 818 

 (Butuan), 1878, p. 937 (Zamboanga); id. Orn. Works, pp. 545 

 (Butuan), 028 (Zamboanga) (1881) ; Ward/, Rams. Tweedd. Orn. 

 Works, App. p. 655 (Mindanao only) (1881). 



Cyclopsitta mindanensis, Steere, List B. $■ M. Steere Exped. to the 

 PMlipp. p. 6 (1890). 



Adult male. Differs from that of B. lunulatus in having the 

 checks green, the blue round the eyes separated by the green cheeks 

 from the blue of the throat ; the collar on the lower hind neck is 

 of a brighter and deeper blue; the green of the head has a 

 yellowish tinge, contrasting with the purer green colour of the 

 back : " iris dark brown ; bill black, the base of the maxilla light 

 grey; feet greenish" (Everett). Total length about 6 inches, wing 

 3-8* to 3-9, tail 1-3, bill 0-7, tarsus 0-38. 



Adult female. Exactly similar to the female of B. lunulatus. 



Ilab. Mindanao, and the small island of Panaon on the northern 

 coast of Mindanao. 



a. g juv. sk. 

 b-ff. cJ $ ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 h, i, k. J ad. sk. 

 /, m, n. c? $ ad. 



et imm. sk. 



Panaon, Oct. (A. H. Everett). 

 Surigao, May (A. H. Everett). 



Butuan, May (A. H. Everett). 

 Zamboanga, March, April, May 

 (A. H. Everett). 



Tweeddale Coll.* 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



43. AGAP0RNIS. 



Agapornis, Selhy, Nat. Libr., Parrots p. 117 (183G). A. swindei 

 Poliopsitta, Bp. Per. et Ma;/, de Zool. 1854, p. 154. A. cana. 

 Poliopsittacus, Sunder. Meth. nat. Av. disp. Tent. 



Type, 

 •eniana. 



p. 69 (1872 

 Range. Ethiopian Region. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts green. 

 a'. Bill grey. 



a". Head, neck, and breast grey ; under wing- 

 coverts black cana tf , p. 507. 



b" . Head, neck, and breast like the rest of the 



body, green ; under wing-coverts green . . cana P , p. 507. 

 b'. Bill red. 



c". Forehead red ; under wing-coverts black . . taranta <S , p. 509. 

 d". Head entirely green ; under wing-coverts 



green taranta P. , P- 509. 



* This specimen was not mentioned by the Marquis of Tweeddale in his 

 paper on the Birds of Panaon (P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 379-381). 



